Organisations

Take advantage of our directory of cultural organizations in 46 countries. From performing arts, visual arts, new media, film, heritage and museums, search for private and public organisations across Asia and Europe.

The Yangon Art & Heritage Festival focuses on the everyday life of the city and its daily routine. My Yangon My Home – Yangon Art & Heritage Festival pioneers in 2015 as the first Art & Heritage Festival in Myanmar. It aims to help develop a new vision from Yangon’s people about their culture legacy, […] More

Myanmar Deitta is a not-for-profit civil society organisation committed to developing the resources for documentary photography, filmmaking and multimedia production in Myanmar. We work to develop training opportunities and workshop programs, host photographic exhibitions and screenings of documentary film and multimedia, and provide support for independent documentary projects. Since political reforms began to sweep through […] More

Arts Republic is a free online listings magazine for arts events in Singapore. It was started in 2009. The aim is to make arts public. A platform to propel local independent arts into mainstream community. To promote local artists to the forefront of the Singapore arts scene. Through which, we hope to allow for the […] More

Our City Festival is Cambodia’s first and only public festival to bring together creatives from Cambodian cities to focus on urbanism and it’s influences on contemporary culture. OCF activates Cambodia’s urban environments through art, architecture and ideas that is characterized by a spirit of accessibility, learning and innovation for all. In 2014, OCF’s 6th edition took […] More

The Asia Pacific PhotoForum is an international consortium of professional photography festivals which collectively seeks to further the presence of photography across the Asia Pacific region and around the Pacific Rim. It offers a collective medium for artistic expression and dissemination of ideas and information in a globalizing world Founded in 2010 by six Australian […] More

We Seek:Organisations and individuals sharing our passion for photography, who are interested in collaborating with a vibrant centre for education and exchange to help further the development of photography in Asia.

We Offer:As the longest-running international photography event in Southeast Asia, we remain strongly committed to nurturing and promoting emerging talent, and encouraging the development of photography in Asia.

Projects:Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops

The longest-running photography event in Southeast Asia, the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops is a free international platform and educational resource for established and emerging photographers. Our organisation remains strongly committed to nurturing and promoting young Asian talent, and encouraging the development of photography in the region. Our discoveries of both new and classic work are shared […] More

We Offer:Our focus is on media, photography, installation & performance

We are an artist run exhibition and project space in Chinatown, Bangkok. Our focus is on media, photography, installation & performance. We are interested in guest curatorial projects. Our facility is a shophouse in the center of a new creative neighborhood in an old part of the city, near the main railway station. https://www.facebook.com/NACCbkk Contact by Facebook […] More

We Seek:We are looking for partner organizations working in art cultural management - galleries, festival, residency programs - with good connections in Europe to seek funding and to cooperate on projects of research, support and promotion of emerging artists.

We Offer:We are an art festival organization based in Valencia, Spain.

Projects:Incubarte International Art Festival

Incubarte, conceived as a meeting point for artists and the audience, is an event where networks between different art and culture professionals are created. The event has a public, free and festive nature, and our main objective is to expose Valencian citizens to the latest Spanish and international art trends, selecting artists from the contemporary […] More

We Seek:We are looking for production teams, filmmakers, directors, producers, brands, TV channels who a reliable and experienced partner in China.

We Offer:We have 8 years of experience of filmmaknig in China. We're here to help you make your shoot work in China. We provide a wide variety of production services: Budgeting, Location Scouting, Research, Fixing, Story Development, Script Writing, Studio Booking, Casting, Visa and Permissions, Line Production, Equipment Hire, Local Crew Hire, Fixing, Translation, Stills, Government Liaison, Dailies/Telecine. Film or Digital Post-production Work-Flow, Encoding, Editing, Translation, Transcription, Subtitling.

Mandarin Film has produced and co-produced a number of award-winning documentaries for an international audience. Mandarin Film can help make your foreign film, documentary, TV or online content happen in China. Founded in 2006, Mandarin Film has provided production services for corporate videos, documentary series and feature length docs, and multi-million dollar budget Hollywood movies. […] More

Czech Society for Film Studies (CEFS) is a civic association of scholars, pedagogues, students, archivists, critics and creators in the field of film and audio-visual media, which have main goal to help its members with their professional needs. Some of activities of the association are running web pages, publishing the journal, awarding achievers and hosting […] More

We Seek:Partnerships with theatres, art spaces and cultural organisations seeking to engage with China through artist residency projects across the performing arts.

We Offer:Huo Dong Fang (literally translated as Moving House) is a place for training, research and new works in performance. It is the only residency in Beijing set-up specifically for dance and theatre. Providing accommodation, ample studio spaces and a wide China network, the house is a crossways for Chinese and international theatre and dance companies, dramaturges, actors, directors, choreographers, musicians, composers, writers, producers, designers and pedagogues from around the world, fostering lasting relationships and generating new works.

Projects:Beijing Fringe Festival; International Residency Program

Eligible Applicants Residency is particularly relevant for those wishing to devise, hold workshops, rehearse or conduct research in dance, physical theatre or Chinese performance. Companies or individuals for whom movement and gesture are at the basis of their work will be firstly considered. Application Process Huo Dong Fang reviews applications through the application procedures of […] More

We Seek:Rasa Projects is seeking to develop partnerships with galleries and residency programmes across South Asia in order to share and source artists and artworks for the exhibition programme. We are also seeking grants and funding for the development and growth of the gallery in the UK.

We Offer:Rasa Projects is the pioneering platform for emerging and established conceptual artists from South Asia to the European market. Rasa Projects will open in June 2015 with a series of exhibitions across different venues in London, and will open a permanent gallery space in 2016.

Projects:Contemporary art gallery focusing on exhibiting conceptual emerging artists from across South Asia in London

Rasa Projects is dedicated to organizing thought-provoking exhibitions, challenging artistic conventions and creating conceptual interventions stemming from the artists’ individual contexts. To complement the exhibition programme, the gallery will collaborate with curators and writers to produce essays and catalogues to continue the discourse on contemporary visual culture in a broader context. Contact details: radhika@rasaprojects.com More

The Euro – Asia Promotion and Cultural Foundation (EAPCF) aims to become a link between Europe and Asia through Romania, and focuses on economical promotion and culture. In 2013, EAPCF received from China Outbound Tourism Research Institute COTRI the Chinese Tourists Welcoming Award for Product Innovation. More

We Offer:Artistic exchanges, Production collaborations and Networking opportunities

Projects:More information on our current 2014 Season can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/theatrethreesixtymalaysia

Established in February 2014, theatrethreesixty is a collective of playmakers dedicated to telling the stories that we want to tell, by nurturing work from all walks of life, giving writers and actors safe spaces to experiment and grow to help pave the way for new Malaysian theatre. In our inaugural year alone, we have put out […] More

We Seek:Our aim is to build a large database of the global Performing Arts community. A community able to support themselves and willing to make social changes.

We Offer:Professional website builder for performer, companies and performances for FREE to help the Performing Arts Community to promote themselves and their works. A Database of the Contemporary Performing Arts community worldwide where visitor can discover the artists and their works in an instant way, instead of expending to much time on the net.

Peeppol Network is a website builder and database for the contemporary performing arts community and its performances. Our members are able to build, design and publish websites in a minutes to promote themselves or/and their projects. Beside that, we want to support our member with funds by opening a competition of performance projects “The Crowdaward” […] More

We Seek:Carpe diem Residency is an Artist-in Residence program founded by Awarded filmmaker Shivajee Chandrabhsuhan from India. We are non-profit organization. We wish to provide grants to the participants and make the residency free in the upcoming Programs.With your help and financial support we can continue to strive towards that goal. We are looking for donors, sponsors and philanthropists to support us in this endeavor.

We Offer:Our Residency is designed to provide the artists with a clutter-free space (in mind and in geography), nurtured with both the silences of isolation and enriching conversations with fellow artists, inching you closer to your project every passing moment. Here, you are on a journey of looking inward, where you share your thoughts, ideas, and desires with fellow artists to experience a collective sense of freedom. We at Carpe diem strongly believe that the best of your creative instincts can be nurtured when you elevate your experiences in a holistic way.Our objective is to host new and emerging, as well as veteran artists to help them comprehend their creative corridors. Towards the closure of each program, the artists need to arrive upon a certain outcome, essential to their projects.We offer two types of Residencies - Artists' Residency in which we invite Artists from all discipline and another specifically designed for Screenwriters.

Projects:Upcoming Artists' Residency is our Cedar Hill Program at Shimla in March 2015 and Screenwriters Residency at Kalmatia Sangam in May 2015.

Carpe diem residency, a series of artist-in-residence programs is designed to invite artists, writers and film makers for a time and space away from their usual social environment and domestic obligations. The founders are a self-driven group of artists and film makers from India who are deeply influenced by nature and the efficacy of human […] More

We Seek:Our Dance Comapny seeks Performance opportunities, Festivals, Contacts, Board members and Sponsorship in kind or financial for one of our many outreach activities.

We Offer:High end dance performances. We work a variety of styles ranging from Classical Ballet to Fly-low Contemporary technique. We also offer workshops and social as well as educational outreach.

Projects:SIPA, Shenzhen Fringe Festival, many own productions in Germany, Singapore, Malaysia and China

JSLN Dance Company was founded in October 2012 in Berlin, Germany. It started with now Artistic Director Soren Niewelt getting a chance to choreograph a piece for the Studio Performance at the Marameo Studio in Berlin.This is a platform for young choreographers to present their work. Jessica Larbig at this point, was training at Marameo […] More

We Seek:We are looking for partners to support the international exchange of artist from Asia to work in our artist´s residence in our Art Center in Madrid.

We Offer:All the projects in residence are completed with a special exhibition (1 month at least) into the museum, co-laboratories with the artist, editing a catalog, and promotion the artist with interviews and audiovisual material of the work-in-progress. The artist's studio is visited during the creation process. This space can detail the corporate image of the partner with a text on the basis of social responsibility about why the partner decided give their support the artistic creation. Donation of one work of the artist.

Projects:La Neomudéjar - Art Center - Artist´s Residence

La Neomudejar is the Avant-Garde Arts Centre and Residence & Artist Residency in Madrid. We are an independent project. We cover all artistic disciplines but we are more focused on video art, performance and street art. The Artists residency consists of 8 workshops between 40 and 80 m2. It is an industrial building from the late […] More

The Faculty of Performing Arts of the Jakarta Institute of Arts (IKJ) was founded in 1976 by Suharto as an educational centre for the local artists of Jakarta. It consists of three faculties, namely the Faculty of Visual Arts, the Faculty of Performing Arts and the Faculty of Film and Television, the latter being the […] More

The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is Britain’s leading centre for the development, promotion and support of literary translation and contemporary writing from around the world. We are part of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. BCLT was founded in 1989 by the late WG Sebald. […] More

The Wasteland Twinning Collective was founded in 2010 by the artists Will Foster, Matthias Einhoff and Lars Hayer. The main focus of the collective is an international platform for mutual exchange of research and art practices called ‘www.wasteland-twinning.net’. Wasteland Twinning aims at understanding and extending the meaning of wastelands within urban environments and thus create […] More

Gwangju Biennale in Korea is one of the leading biennials of contemporary art. Gwangju Biennale is the first and oldest contemporary art biennial in Asia and one of the biggest biennials in present time. Founded in 1995 in memory of spirits of civil uprising of the 1980 repression of the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the first […] More

Biennial Foundation is an independent non-profit arts organization that was founded by Marieke van Hal in 2009 to stimulate a spirit of solidarity among contemporary art biennials worldwide, and to facilitate a diversity of platforms for the exchange of knowledge, information and expertise. Biennials are vital and visible sites for the production, distribution, and public […] More

Sandrabh is a context for experimenting with artistic processes, and exploring new modalities of viewership and public participation in art. Sandarbh finds its inspiration in the ethos of rural India, and draws its name from Hindi, a language widely spoken in several dialects in North and Western parts of India. In Hindi, Sandrabh literally means: […] More

In 1984, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was registered as a society and founded with the vision to create a membership organization to stimulate and spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India. Today INTACH is recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations, with over 180 Chapters across the Country. […] More

Rimbun Dahan, the home of architect Hijjas Kasturi is also a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms. It features buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi, as well as a 19th century traditional Malay house, in an indigenous garden environment. Rimbun Dahan runs a range of Artists’ Residencies to encourage visual artists, choreographers and other […] More

International Theatre Lab (ITL) is a Norway-based production and research organization run by theatre professionals. Founded on the principle that an actor’s craft is a continuous learning curve, ITL arranges mobile and residential workshops, lectures and master classes, produces innovative performances and forges exchanges with theatre companies and institutions around the world. More

The International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) is an international network of National Trusts and similar non-governmental organisations, globally diverse but united by a shared commitment to conserving and sustaining our shared heritage – built and natural, tangible and intangible. Through cooperation, coordination and comradeship between the international community of National Trusts, INTO works to develop […] More